Re: [Xen-devel] cluster management

[John Levin <xenjohn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/30/05, James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is anyone currently working on a xen cluster manager?

Well, there is this :-)

http://xensource.com/products/xenoptimizer.html

Probably a lot of other commercial efforts?

> The sort of
> functionality I'd be looking for is:
>
> . multiple master - dom0 on all physical machines are equal cluster
> manager masters
> . config replication - I guess rsync can do this though.
> . vif mac address allocation - can be done manually by taking care in
> the config files though. I just had an incident with a duplicated mac
> address. Nasty.
> . multiple domain instantiation protection. Same domain should never be
> started on multiple physical machines at once. This would be the main
> requirement.
> . automatic load balancing of domains. A new domain is created on any
> available physical machine. Domains automatically migrated to balance
> load.
> . automatic restart of required domains if a machine disappears from the
> cluster (eg crashes or blows up)
> . clean shutdown of a node in the cluster, migrate off all domains to
> other nodes first.
>
> ?
>
> James
>
>
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